A unique remnant of Charlotte’s streetcar system, the Trolley Walk illustrates how that transportation technology influenced Charlotte’s early 20th century residential development.  

Past residents of the Walter L. Alexander House include a successful hotelier, the namesake of a major Charlotte thoroughfare, and a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.

The founder of Belk’s department stores chose prominent Charlotte architect C. C. Hook to design one of the city’s most prominent homes.  

The concrete block Harry Arthur Ziem House was the handiwork of one of Charlotte’s most notable innovators in concrete block construction in the early 1900s.  

Biddleville Cemetery is one of Mecklenburg County’s oldest post-Emancipation African American cemeteries not affiliated with a church. 

The Calvin Neal House is a rare early example of stone rubble construction and the only one of its kind in Wesley Heights. 

The Colonial Revival house of Dr. Robert H. Greene House is a unique artifact of Charlotte’s African American middle class residential development in the 20th century. 

The Grand Theater is a rare artifact from the Jim Crow segregation era that prevailed in Mecklenburg County through most of the 20th century.  (Open Ended) 

The Hoskins Mill was one of the earliest cotton mills owned by Edward A. Smith who, by 1908, was the principal shareholder in North Carolina’s largest textile mill business. 

The stone entry gates of Johnson C. Smith University marked a new name and a new era for Mecklenburg County’s only historic Black university.